Memes @lemmy.ml

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My knee began hurting in my twenties after a fall. I went to my GP who told me it was just a sprain and to exercise. The pain never really went away, and then one day in my late forties the dog yanked me on his leash to try and chase a cat and it popped in a funny way, and I saw an orthopedic surgeon who told me I should have had surgery in my twenties to correct a malaligned kneecap, and that now it was too late and I would be prone to medial collateral ligament injuries like the one I currently had. I've done a bunch of physio but I still avoid stairs because it's one surefire way it's going to aggravate my injury.
Just another example of doctors not taking women's complaints seriously. A referral to Ortho would have taken five minutes of his time.
- If it makes you feel any better, doctors also don’t take men’s complaints seriously.
- I empathize with your story, but I'm not sure why it became about anti-women doctors. Men constantly have our complaints misdiagnosed.
  The problem is that most GPs aren't very good. People who do the best in medical school often choose to become surgeons or specialists, not GPs.
  
  Idk, I can simply say there's a lot of jokes women make about how you can go in with a broken ankle and your doctor will ask you the date of your last period and tell you you should get some exercise. Though I did work with an excellent gynecologist who disposed of the scale in his office because it didn't mean he wasn't going to treat his patients or make any difference to their care.
  GPs also make shit money and work a lot of hours to be fair though, but yeah some of them really are the pits.

I’ve collected 4 of 5 so far. I almost have a complete set.
- Much like pokemon, this is just the first generation of body betrayal.
  
  I was thinking more of a crippled exodia

I'm in my 40s and I have experienced all of these at some point in my life but it's hardly part of my personality. Someone really observant might be able to tell I baby my left knee a bit and my right hip is often tight.
But geez none of these were issues at thirty. None are issues more than a few days a year now. Y'all need to take better care of yourselves.
- I developed bunions (only on my left foot) at 29 =(
  
  You should look into better footwear. Modern shoes cause bunions. Fashion is the culprit!
- I’m 40 and experience none of these. Y’all gotta workout and/or stretch some more.
  
  Genetics plays a big role you know. Stretching isn't going to cure arthritis.
  
  I do like to strech, don't like to work out tho. Unless riding my bike a couple times a week counts. I'm 29 and the neck pain is unbareable sometimes. There is literally nothing I can do to prevent this. sits another 12 hours in front of his pc
- That or it’s just zoomers being dumb about terminology. They call 30 year olds boomers, which is two generations off.

TIL that Psyduck was at least 30 years old when he was first introduced, I guess 🤷
- I would like to see a cartoon of comic of a relationship between a gardevoir and a hatterene trying to keep their payduck stable. According to their Pokédex entries gardevoir will find people with strong emotions and try to help and console them, meanwhile hatterene will also find them but will instead violently silence them

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God, I wish.
- Gotta catch em all!

Not to brag, but I'm 40 and have none of these, it's surprising and a bit depressing to me that so many people have these ailments at such an early age. I wish you as many pain free and healthful years as possible.
- I wish me a speedy death.
  My knee has been screwed up since birth and somedays I can't walk on it. My lower back was destroyed when I was 10 because some idiot didn't follow simple instructions. I have constant headaches because of a glasses prescription that I can't afford to get changed. I have arthritis in my feet. I own 3 canes. I am 31.
  Pretty much the only pain I don't have is hip pain.
  
  I am not one to blindly believe that life is inherently sacred without the context of death. If this is what you want, and considering your physical ailments, I can only assume I have the smallest of understandings as to why you desire it to all end. And I can only hope you find some peace in one form or another. I'm... well, at a loss at how I can express sympathy. I hope you can find some solace, though.
- I acquired almost all of these due to competitive weightlifting. It was fun, but also, ouch.
- I’ve had arthritis since I was like 24 or 25. It really does suck… I miss the days when I didn’t hurt constantly.
  
  I really am so sorry to hear about that. Even though I suffer none of these ailments myself, I've witnessed my elderly parents and friends (yes, I have elderly friends) go through coping with this negative permanent change to their day to day existence, and it is heartbreaking. It is an experience I can only logically expect to one day viscerally experience myself.
  I wish I could offer you more than sympathy, truly. I hope you can find some peace and joy in the probably brief reprieves from your sufferings.
- I know, right? I'm 30 and only have a slight knee discomfort because I lifted heavy on squats for a long time before changing to a lower weight higher rep regimen. I hear so many people complaining about having issues and unless it's from an injury I just imagine it's because lemmy self selects for the chronically online (and usually unhealthy as fuck.)
  
  Nice of you to assume that everybody here is chronically online and unhealthy unlike you.

By your late 40s you get to collect the entire set!

It's easier to say where my body doesn't hurt at this point. I guess my hands are ok. Well no scratch that the bastards dry up in winter and resemble bleeding salt flats... fuck.
- Oh, God, that's the worst. They're dry AF in the summer, too, but when winter hits, if I don't keep applying lotion every 7 and a half minutes like Cassandra from Doctor Who, then I just leave little snail trails of blood on everything I touch!
  
  The excessive use of lotion is probably what's doing it. Your skin stopped making it's own protective oils. What you're experiencing is not normal.

When I was 10 I started having issues with my ankle joint "locking" into place. I wouldn't be able to bend it forward or back (like you need for a walking motion), and would have to roll it around gently sideways and slowly get a wider and wider ROM in my roll until it popped and I could do a straight back and forth motion and walk normally again. As a young athlete, it was a removed, because I'd be sprinting down the soccer field and mid stride my ankle would lock and I'd be fucking hobbling. Finally at 13 my parents decided maybe it was an issue worth seeing a doctor for. The orthopedic specialist told me he had no idea what was going on, that puberty does weird things to kids heads and it was all in my imagination. Told me by the time my hormones stabilized it would go away, said just wait til 15 or so, I promise you'll be fine. I'm in my 30s and the fucking thing locked up as recently as last week, so he's clearly a genius.
- You never went to another doctor?
  
  Nah, my parents wouldn't take me and when I was an adult I didn't have money/care enough to go find another doctor who I figure also won't care. I'm also no longer an athlete (because of said ankle, but now I'm just old and lazy) so it's not a big deal. If it hurts, it hurts.
  
  I am still fairly active. Can't really run much. But I do wear a neoprene pressure sleeve on it most days. That seems to alleviate it somewhat. I can force it to pop but when I do it's very sharp pain and throbbing for an hour or more afterward. Shit happens I guess.
- I have crushed cartilage in one knee. That knee locks by itself sometimes until I force it to pop. I've been to several sports medicine docs and regular docs. They can see there is fluid on my knee and inflammation. They don't think the crushed cartilage is related and don't have an option for fixing that anyway that's covered under insurance (I have two different insurances). They have no idea why it locks up. Still.
  
  A knee locking up sounds far more painful than an ankle! I hope you somehow find a resolution!

I got my first one of these when I was 21 and in the best shape of my life. Accidents, injuries, and unpreventable diseases happen, and acting like your comparative good luck means you've made better choices than those who have been less lucky by implying they've been "unhealthy as hell" is kind of gross.
- I'm a massage therapist, my job is literally helping people's pain and I see a fuck ton of clients. Luck has just shit to do with it and most people just don't take as good care of themselves as they think. The vast majority of bad backs I see could be prevented or alleviated by having stronger abs and glutes.
  Dudes with Hank Hill ass telling me they don't know why their back hurts make me want to scream.

I hate stereotypes like this. I have all of these, and you're not going to make me pigeon hole myself into choosing one!

Where's my shoulder pain at?
Nvm i know exactly where it is...in the right shoulder.
For now.

I have all of them. Am I more 30 than others people?
- You're a midlife Thanos.

What do you mean one?

People without chronic pain be making their entire personalities about going outside and doing things painlessly. /s

When you turn 40, it's 2 of those.

Listen,

The best time to pick up a calisthenics program was your teens, the second best time is now, you old fogeys.

I work in trades and literally nobody is complaining about their hip under 60. This meme is a 16yo's idea of life in one's thirties.
- I've met enough people who don't work in trades, who are in their early 30s and complain a lot about knee and hip pain.
  I've also met people in their late 40s and 50s who have lower back pain so severe they are sometimes unable to move properly for days.
  But I agree, this is an exaggeration.
- So you're telling me that a meme may have exaggerated for comedic effect? No...
  Also I'm in my 30s and the only one of those I don't feel is hip pain.
  
  I actually had back pain in my late 30s, got a new mattress and it completely went away.
- Me too. My 30 are basically the same as my 20s, and same for most of the people around me.
  But shhh if the kids underestimate us, we can get away with more! "oh noes, my poor old hip can't handle pushing this heavy thing! You do it and I'll impart some wisdom because of my advanced years."
  
  I definitely take better care of myself because I have to now. In my 20s, I could have dominos and two beers without issue, now I’ll wake up incredibly dehydrated and bloated (I chose dominos because of the salt, not the taste). I do also have body pains, but I did sports pretty intensely before the pandemic, so I think those are mostly injuries. I tend to need more recovery time, for example, I’ve been vomiting all summer from the heat, but otherwise I hadn’t vomited sober since my early twenties. I need two full days not to feel shitty and weak afterwards, which is definitely a development.

All of these.

I just need something to take the red out
- Have you tried this medication? The advertisement shows that it turns into little blue orbs that attack red spots and return them to normal color. It's super scientific.

40 y/o here! I had my first migraine ever about 2 months ago, and boy did it suck. What's more, they decided to start happening semi-regularly because... who the fuck knows.
Not my personality, though. I reserve that for my weird niche hobbies that nobody wants to hear about. Anyway, about my retail training video VHS collection...
- Got any Wendy's music videos?
  
  Are fast food music videos a thing, too?? I'm missing out!
- Do you happen to have "The Texas Law of Student Search and Seizure" circa 1993?
  
  No! Are you fucking with me rn, or is that a real thing?? I'm very interested.
- Read about vitamin b2 and migraine prevention
  
  Yeah!! B2 is one of the supplements I'm taking to see if they reduce their intensity/frequency.
  I went to a neurologist recently because I didn't know that these things I've been getting were migraines in the first place. Turns out I get Vestibular Migraines.
- I had my first migraine ever about 2 months ago
  You're lucky as fuck. I had them all my life and I'm in my mid-thirties now.
- Just a consideration to add to the others, but you may want to consider some neck stretching and exercises. Tension in the first two or three cervical vertebrae can cause migraines.
  Added bonuses include that this option is free, it takes up very little time, it can be done almost anywhere, plus it'll help you hold up that big ole brain a lot better in the future!

Ha! Just wait until you turn 50! That's when the real fun starts. Ask me how I know.
On the flipside, while it's true that I fucked myself up trying (and failing) to be a pro snowboarder in my 20s, it really is possibly to bounce back from injuries --so long as they aren't too bad-- and have a good and active life in spite of them.
Sure, I'll never be the same person I was before I trashed my body doing stupid shit when I was young reckless and stupid, but I've made a pretty good comeback over the years just by eating right, always exercising and staying physically fit by keeping myself in the game.
Now I'm old, in my 50s, but I'm still physically fit and in general my teenage daughter and 20-something-year-old nephews struggle to keep up with me on our hikes and backpacking and/or climbing trips.
Granted, some of it's purely psychological, but there's no question in my mind that some of it is also simply about having spent years as a very physically active and physically fit person.
- Do you still snowboard? I'm mid 30s and it gets harder every year
  
  Yes. But mostly split-board backcountry, so I'm not doing 20+ runs in a day or hitting the park very often.

Just cuz I turned 30 and identify with every single one of these doesn't mean...

hey, you missed upper back pain!

Just wait until you hit forty, and you'll have most, if not all, of those.
- Alternatively I’m 40 and have none of these. Take care of your body young bucks.
  
  I was about to ask about your exercise routine, but then I remembered, I have a theory...
  What's your water source like? Have you lived most of your life near a mountain? Not super close to a huge city - smaller cities are fine, but nothing with a crazy population, heavy industry, or heavy agriculture?
  Or if you are, which one if you're ok answering?

One of these?

Damn I'm 52 and have nothing at all "yet" but I know the countdown is started for all kinds of stuff 😑
- I'm about to turn 59 in a couple of weeks. I was fine at 52. Now I have back, knee and hip pains and wear readers. It comes on pretty quick.

The jokes on you, I've always been in pain!
In fact I only recently discovered that not everybody feels this way all the time and that has been oddly encouraging.

30? Damn I wish I made it that far. I think I've had chronic back pain for as long as I can remember. But that's because my spine is all messed up so I know I'm not a representative example here.

I feel underrepresented here. I only experience migraines occasionally, and hardly any of the other pains pictured. That's not to say my health is in top condition. I'll be taking this to my lawyer, we are not done here
- My shoulder isn't in this picture. Everything else is fine, though (knock on wood).

"with your powers combined...."

OP has not experienced long term pain it seems.

Knees: sports people
Lower back: computer people
Migraine: women

I have a fucked knee but it has nothing to do with my personality.
I just can't run.
I still try when I play with the kids and end up limping around for a few days.
I don't really understand what this image is implying.
- you might be overthinking it.
- yes, kids is the missing panel in the picture

All my friends have pains in places but I guess either I'm lucky or have good genetics. The only issue I have is I will dislocate my shoulder without fail when I try a backhand throw in discgolf but that has always been an issue.
- Just give it time. Your body will soon choose a bodypart that hurts your whole life

I’ve collected 4 of 5 so far. I almost have a complete set.

It's my hand, actually.

I must have a wide personality range

Regular exercise can help do a lot about most of those problems. I feel bad for people who suffer chronic pain, though.

I fortunately don't have any of this. I do exercise regularly but I wonder how long it is before some chronic pain starts appearing.

40s here. Literally don't know anyone who is like this

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